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Well that's just what a manager should be doing. Their job is to ensure everyone else can work. Quite literally a "production assistant". They should deal with
by ShteiLoups 7y ago
Well that's just what a manager should be doing. Their job is to ensure everyone else can work. Quite literally a "production assistant". They should deal with all the BS that workers don't want to, so they can get to the real work. Which is the main flaw in promoting workers to management, as they're two entirely different sets of skills.
There's a post on joelonsoftware about this, and I think it constitutes most of the first few chapters of the book peopleware.
- k__ 7y agoWell, you aren't wrong. In my opinion the problem is just that managers are seen as people in positions of power, this needs to go away. Creating a new role with new naming would get rid of all the baggage.
- ShteiLoups 7y agoI think I'd strike a difference between power and influence. Managers necessarily have influence, or quickly grow it, by the nature of being a good manager.